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TMT Trends: Predictions 2008

What's going to happen in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector in 2008? Getting value from virtualization. How to manage talent when legacy becomes the future? Potential obstacles ahead for online advertisement. The growth in offshoring in the media sector. The impact of a possible economic downturn on the telecommunications sector. All of these issues are discussed in Predictions 2008 — three reports outlining the critical trends that will influence the global TMT market in 2008.

Technology Predictions

Our 2008 predictions cover the environment’s growing influence on the technology sector, the reinvention of the user-interface, digital storage’s hidden costs, the emergence of biometric security, the varied costs of free technology, the potentially global impact of carousel fraud, new combinations of existing technologies, the technology industry’s dividend from social networking, the emergence of parasitic power systems and the technologically enhanced human.

Media Predictions

2008’s predictions cover: the commercialization of social networks and user-generated content, the disparity in metrics used to quantify new media and traditional media, opportunities in China’s media sector, the growth of real economies within virtual worlds, the long tail’s alternative forms, the immediacy of VOD to PCs, public participation in television programs, the growing symbiosis between online publications and paper sources and finally the cost of free media.

Telecommunications Predictions

This year’s telecommunications predictions cover: the possibility of demand exceeding supply on the Internet; the net neutrality debate, the need for broadband appliances, suggestions for making mobile video pay its way, cellular mobile’s move indoors, strategies for IPTV, the benefits of small-sized telecommunications applications, potential pitfalls of triple play, the connectivity chasm and the rising cost of free telecommunications.